Law, Human Agency and Autonomic Computing interrogates the legal implications of the notion and experience of human agency implied by the emerging paradigm of autonomic computing, and the socio-technical infrastructures it supports.

Introduction: A Multifocal View of Human Agency in the Era of Autonomic Computing, Mireille Hildebrandt; 1 Smart? Amsterdam Urinals and Autonomic Computing, Don Ihde; 2 Subject to technology: on autonomic computing and human autonomy, Peter-Paul Verbeek; 3 Remote control: human autonomy in the age of computer-mediated agency, Jos de Mul & Bibi van den Berg; 4 Autonomy, delegation and responsibility: agents in autonomic computing environments, Roger Brownsword; 5 Rethinking human identity in the age of autonomic computing: the philosophical idea of the trace, Massimo Durante; 6 Autonomic computing, genomic data and human agency: the case for embodiment, Hyo Yoon Kang; 7 Technology, virtuality and utopia: governmentality in an age of autonomic computing Antoinette Rouvroy; 8 Autonomic and autonomous 'thinking': preconditions for criminal accountability, Mireille Hildebrandt; 9 Technology and accountability: autonomic computing and human agency, Jannis Kallinikos; 10 Of machines and men: the road to identity. Scenes for a discussion, Stefano Rodotà; 11 'The BPI Nexus': a philosophical echo to Stefano Rodotà's 'Of Machines and Men', Paul Mathias; Epilogue: technological mediation, and human agency as recalcitrance, Antoinette Rouvroy